BAME

BAME SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES PROJECT

KCBNA Supporting BAME Communities Project works with the Bangladeshi, Somali and Chinese community living in Camden and Kings Cross area. The project aims to work with children, adults, families and older people, with disability or with carer needs, in supporting and assisting the community to a wide range of services and activities. The project is based at Chadswell Healthy Living Centre.

Kings Cross area has a history related to poverty, poor health, high crime rates and deprivation. Many researchers have identified that the most deprived community are the Black, Asian and Minority communities facing difficulties with everyday life.

A variety of health promotional workshops, sessions and short courses are arranged to raise community awareness and improve healthy lifestyle. The sessions are delivered by professional organisations and qualified staff. The following sessions and workshops have taken place with community groups.

2013

Expert Patient Program

Ageing Artfully yoga and dance

Healthy cooking

Gardening project

Health walks at Regents Park

Food hygiene course

NHS health check

Stop smoking clinic

2014

Healthy juice making

Pilates exercise class

Bengali speaking health advisor

Blood pressure

Cholesterol

Diabetes

Weight problem/ obesity

Arthritis

Cancer

Mental health

Healthy eating during Ramadan

2015

Healthy Cooking

Understanding Dementia

Dementia Tea house

Mental Health

Sexual Health with Margaret Pyke Centre

Cancer Awareness with Health Ambassadors

Diabetes UK

Camden Bangladesh Mela

Camden Recycling workshop

Additional projects and workshops have been delivered in partnership with local organisations, educational institutes, statutory and voluntary sector organisations. Between 2013 – 2014 in partnership with Mary ward centre Art and Craft workshops were arranged for the community to learn new skills and improve their mental health wellbeing. Projects such as The Colombian Gold, Vikings Project were later exhibited at British Museum, an exhibition where thousands of visitors got to view the creative work of the community. We also introduced Basic Knitting workshop which was very popular and lead to a much longer workshop for three months in 2013. This gave the user members plenty of time to be creative and learn knitting skills. Many members made hats, scarves, gloves, mittens, shawls and so much.

Age UK Camden, Camden Welfare Rights Service and Hopscotch Asian Women Centre Benefit Re-form services provide one to one information, access and benefit assessment for families, older people and disabled people. Approximately 100 people access these services on a weekly base.

To boost up employment and volunteering opportunities, CV writing sessions are provided for the community. This enables many of the unemployed to search for part time or full time employment. Successfully 18 people have completed their CV writing since February – June 2014